Category: Engineering

Reflections on our recognition in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

For the third consecutive year, Arelion is proud to be recognized in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global. To be included is a rigorous process: service providers need to have a global network with coverage across Europe, North America and Asia; sell services to customers in all three regions; and offer a full portfolio […]

Rethinking Internet Backbone Architectures

During the past couple of years, we’ve made several public ad-hoc announcements on technology transitions that keep us busy building and operating the world’s #1 Internet Backbone. This has been done without ever providing a context or connection to the trends believed to be fueling the industry going forward and the path we’ve taken to […]

Routing Security: RPKI Update Q2/20

The Current State of RPKI It’s been three months since we announced that AS1299, as the first Tier-1 transit network in the world, successfully is filtering RPKI invalid announcements from all external BGP sessions. As this is a fast-evolving topic with high interest from the industry at large, we feel this is a good time […]
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COVID-19: Network Trends and Modelling

The world’s undoubtably going through an extremely difficult time in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, causing unimaginable suffering to so many people. It is also, perhaps more than ever before, highlighting the essential role of the Internet as the means for people to keep in touch with loved ones, stay updated on the latest […]

Dropping RPKI invalid prefixes

Telia Carrier/AS1299 is now as the first tier-1 dropping RPKI invalid prefixes from both customers & peers. We’re hoping for more networks and operators to join us for a more resilient and stable Internet. Our customers can continue to use RTBH functionality (if enabled for their service) for validated prefixed just as before. We have […]